Across the nation

Posted: November 10, 2012 - 12:30am

WASHINGTON

Trying to show flexibility without slowing down President Barack Obama’s health care law, the administration said Friday states can have more time to work out their roles in providing health care to millions of uninsured Americans.

In a letter to governors, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said she still wants to hear by the end of next week if states will be setting up health insurance markets under the law. But governors can now take another month, until mid-December, to submit detailed blueprints.

BRIEFLY ...

● BETHESDA, Md. — Lockheed Martin Corp. has ousted its president and future CEO over a relationship with a subordinate. The defense company said Friday its board of directors asked for and received the resignation of Christopher Kubasik from his role as vice chairman, president and chief operating officer. Lockheed Martin says an ethics investigation confirmed he had a close personal relationship with a subordinate employee.

● LOS ANGELES — For 10 agonizing minutes, an 18-year-old mentally disabled woman was raped in the back of a near-empty Los Angeles County bus as it rolled past a state park and a cemetery and no one did anything about it. Several passengers and the driver were apparently unaware a crime was being committed in the 45-foot-long bus, but one person on board tried to alert the driver and was unsuccessful.